The Chillingham Castle 10km

Starting and finishing at the castle the flat route leaves the grounds and progresses along quiet country roads. Marshalls & markers will be on the route.

THE VENUE:

This 12th century stronghold home of Sir Humphrey Wakefield & his family, became “base – camp” for the 1298 conquering attack on William Wallace by “hammer of the Scots”, king Edward 1st.

Wallace raided the previous year, burning the women & children to death in the local abbey. The castle was given permission to add battlements by King Edward 111 in 1344. The Elizabethans added “long galleries & capability brown designed the park in 1752.

Since 1246 the castle has been owned by one continuous blood line with Earl’s grey ruling the castle for the founding centuries.